Tim Young
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The font is fine. It’s the particular effect (“static”) where the letters flicker on in a more or less random way that I am trying to re-create. I can find the fonts I used in LiveType ok, just not the effects.
Does that make sense?
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Tim Young -
Thanks Mike,
That all sounds good.
I’ll give that a go.
Cheers,
Tim
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The idea is to conform (some of) the footage at 1:1 (or equivalent). The post house set up is Avid-based, and I think that Baselight can read an Avid sequence, but not so an FCP one. Therein lies the problem!
The rushes are a mixture of DigiBeta, DV and HDV. It’s been digitized by firewire at either DV PAL resolution or the HDV. Oh, and I’ve got some XDCAM EX stuff for good measure too!
The problem that the online guys were having was that there are a number of stills in the programme that I have put in to split screen sequences along with video footage.
What they say is that Automatic Duck can’t take all of the keyframe information over to the Avid, unless I re-create all my split-screen stuff in a sequence created with a 1024 x 576 frame size in the sequence pre-sets, and I also have to put all of my still images in to a frame that is 1024x 576 in Photoshop and then crop them in FCP as I use them.
It all seems a bit “cart before horse”, when FCP does a pretty good job of importing stills and allowing you to move them about easily in the timeline. And the fact that my FCP won’t play back a 1024×576 sequence without rendering is a real pain.
Maybe I’m just plain wrong to hope for an easy path to outputting the programme, but there must be an easier way???
Tim
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Thank you for all your posts.
Will try and get the machine to behave on Monday!
Tim
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Even when I match framed clips to the viewer on the tower, it wouldn’t draw the waveforms.
I’m back on to my MacBook Pro, as the tower had a big crash and I don’t trust it!
Must be something to do with not seeing the Waveform Cache Files folder, coz when I recorded VO on the tower the waveform appeared, but now when I open the sequence on the MacBook, all the original waveforms appear, but NOT the ones for the VO I recorded on the tower.
Strange.
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Many thanks,
The 8:1 pre-set under the fast menu has done the trick (then boosting the level). My director will hopefully thank me for making him sound a bit more manly!
Tim
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Thanks Joe,
Got it working.
Found I had to add a step to Bob’s method: In the Time shift window, I had to press ENTER after typing in the new speed (300%) then hit RENDER then Hit OK
Many thanks,
Tim
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Thank you, Joe. I just tried the time shift steps from the tutorial, but it does absolutely nothing to the speed of the clip. I’ve sped up a shot of a guy chopping potatoes – don’t ask – and want the sound to be sped up to match, but the time shift is not working for me. Any further tips?
Tim
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Doh!
Haven’t trashed prefs since OS9. Thought that was athing of the past.
Many thanks
Tim
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Many thanks. Most comprehensive. My preferred option is the re-shoot…
Animatte would make my life much easier….